From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Wittig Subject: Re: RAID1: What happens when one half of a mirror fails? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:53:58 +0200 Message-ID: <42C44DD6.5060901@weisshuhn.de> References: <200506301024.13126.eric@pretorious.net> <42C44210.7010204@gw.unix-scripts.info> <200506301215.39271.eric@pretorious.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigDBBF29779CE457627C321775" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200506301215.39271.eric@pretorious.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: eric@pretorious.net Cc: Laurent CARON , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigDBBF29779CE457627C321775 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric Pretorious wrote: > On Thursday 30 June 2005 12:03 pm, Laurent CARON wrote: > >>is the swap partition on raid? > > > No. swap both swap partitions are formatted as standard swap partitions and mounted via /etc/fstab. > That's no good idea. If a disk fails which contains a swap partition to which data has been swapped the system will crash. Therefor it is important to use mirrored partitions for swap. --------------enigDBBF29779CE457627C321775 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxE3Zx6tzaD9P7mkRAt6zAJ4ka0SKecvf1kHbGTFtpQH0kct4IACdFIA5 sQJpFwEKVmo3PF0y99nSW8I= =R6/k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigDBBF29779CE457627C321775--